Donald Wellman

Biography

Donald Wellman (Professor at the Daniel Webster College), poet, editor, and translator lives in Weare NH. His books of poetry include The Cranberry Island Series (Dos Madres 2012), A North Atlantic Wall (Dos Madrid, 2010), Prolog Pages (Ahadada, 2009), andFields (Light and Dust, 1995). Originally a medievalist, he has written on the poetry of Ezra Pound, William Carlos Williams, Charles Olson and poets associated with both Black Mountain College and with emergent contemporary practices. For several years, he edited O. ARS, a series of anthologies, devoted to topics bearing on postmodern poetics, including volumes entitled Coherence, Perception and Translations: Experiments in Reading. His translation of Enclosed Garden by Emilio Prados is available from Lavender Ink / Diálogos, His translation of Antonio Gamoneda’s Gravestones is available from the University of New Orleans Press. His translation of Gamoneda’s Description of the Lie is forthcoming from Talisman House.